ETNSI Members

Fritz Allhoff

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Australia)
Visiting Scholar, Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame

Marina Blanton

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Information security, privacy and applied cryptography, and in particular topics such as secure computation and outsourcing, private biometric and genomic computation, integrity of outsourced computation and storage, and privacy-preserving systems for medical and social networks

Publications: See here
Dr. Blanton's project focuses on protecting privacy of sensitive biometric data when such data is being used in a variety of applications. As part of this project, Dr. Blanton's research group develops new techniques for secure processing of several types of biometric data including fingerprints, iris codes, and voice samples. This research covers a wide variety of settings in which biometric data can be used.

Peter Campbell

PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University Notre Dame
MA War Studies, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Research interests: International security, civil-military relations, insurgency and counterinsurgency, the just war tradition and advanced military technology, military culture, the effects of cyberwarfare on conflict escalation.

Publications:

Dissertation: “The Essence of War and Military Doctrine: Making US Army Warfighting Doctrine, 1960 to 2010”

Work in Progress: “Clausewitz in Cyberspace” Article on Clausewitz’s concept of the logic of force, its relation to politics, and its implications for the potential for cyber-attacks to lead to conflict escalation.

Randall Dipert

C.S. Peirce Professor of American Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Research interests: Military ethics (the philosophy of war and peace); Applied ontology; Philosophy of war and peace (Just War theory); Ethics of and policy for cyberwarfare; Ethics of preemptive/preventive war; Game Theory and deterrence as ethical and policy dilemmas; Ontologies for military and intelligence applications

Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007)

Dr. Lindley is currently working on a project on the prevalence of pre-emptive and preventive war, and on the extent to which miscalculation and misperception have come to dominate states' decisions for war, and whether the development of new weapons helps lead states into war.

Gerald McKenny

Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Christian ethics; the ethics of biotechnology

Publications:

“Transcendence, Technological Enhancement, and Christian Theology,” in Transhumanism and Transcendence: Christian Hope in an Age of Technological Enhancement, edited by Ronald Cole-Turner, Georgetown University Press, 2011, pp. 177-92

“Nature as Given, Nature as Guide, Nature as Natural Kinds: Return to Nature in the Ethics of Human Biotechnology,” in Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology, edited by David Albertson & Cabell King, Fordham University Press, 2009, pp. 152-77

Deonna Neal

Distinguished Visiting Professor in the William H. Lyon Chair in Professional Ethics, United States Air Force Academy

Research interests: Political theology; Military ethics; Ethics and technology; Professional ethics; Moral formation; Aviation ethics

Dr. Neal is currently a co-investigator for "Mitigating Operator-Induced Mishaps: Professional Education, Moral Neurophysiology and Results-Based Assessment," sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Michael Wiescher

Freimann Chair Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) University of Chicago, Michigan State University, University of Notre Dame
Director of the Nuclear Science Laboratory University of Notre Dame

Research interests: Nuclear physics

Publications: For more information on Dr. Wiescher's publications, see the CV on his webpage.